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Tom Campion

Full name	Thomas Spread Campion
Country (sports)	Ireland
Born	9 September 1860 Lucan, County Dublin, Ireland
Died	19 November 1907 (age 47) Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland
Turned pro	1883 (amateur tour)
Retired	1889
Singles
Career record	60–28 (68.18%)
Career titles	6
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon	2R (1889)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	QF (1888)

Thomas Spread Campion (9 September 1860 – 19 November 1907) was an Irish born tennis player and physician. He was a quarter finalist at the Wimbledon Championships in the mens doubles event in 1888. He was active from 1883 to 1889 and won 6 career singles titles.

Career

Thomas Campion was born on 9 September 1860 in Lucan, County Dublin, Ireland. He played his first tournament at the Dublin University Championships in 1883 where he reached the final and won the tournament against Charles Chaytor. He competed at the Wimbledon Championships two times between 1888 and 1889. In the men's singles events his best result was reaching the second round in 1889 where he lost to the English player Ernest Wool Lewis. He was more successful in the men's doubles reaching the quarter finals in 1888 partnering with Harry Grove where they lost Ernest Renshaw and William Renshaw.

His best results in the other major tournaments of the 19th century came at Irish Championships in 1886 where he reached the qurter finals in the mens singles losing to Willoughby Hamilton, and at the Northern Championships in 1888 where he reached the quarter finals before losing to Ernest George Meers. His main career singles highlights include winning the Derbyshire Championships played on grass three times consecutivley (1886–1888), and the Dublin University Championships three times played on hard asphalt courts (1883, 1885, 1888). He played his last singles tournament at the Wimbledon Championships in 1889. Campion died on 19 November 1907 at Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland, aged 77.

Career finals

Notes: All Comers Finalist where indicated by (*).

Singles: 13 (6 titles, 7 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Location	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	1883	Dublin University Championships	Dublin	Asphalt	Charles Henry Chaytor	5–7, 6–1, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	1884	South of Ireland Championships *	Limerick	Grass	Eyre Chatterton	1–6, 2–6, 1–6
Winner	2.	1885	Dublin University Championships	Dublin	Asphalt	Charles Henry Chaytor	5–7, 6–1, 7–5, 6–1
Runner-up	2.	1885	South of Ireland Championships *	Limerick	Grass	Willoughby Hamilton	5–7, 1–6, 5–7
Winner	3.	1886	Derbyshire Championships	Buxton	Grass	Percy Bateman Brown	5–7, 6–2, 6–1, 9–7
Runner-up	3.	1887	County Dublin Championships	Dublin	Grass	Willoughby Hamilton	6–8, 2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	1887	Dublin University Championships	Dublin	Asphalt	Manliffe Francis Goodbody	6–2, 3–6, 1–6, 0–6
Winner	4.	1887	Derbyshire Championships	Buxton	Grass	William Drumond Hamilton	6–2, 6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	1887	Leicester Open Lawn Tennis Tournament	Leicester	Grass	Ernest Wool Lewis	3–6, 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	6.	1888	Fitzwilliam Club Championships	Dublin	Grass	Willoughby Hamilton	4–6, 3–6, 1–6
Winner	5.	1888	Derbyshire Championships	Buxton	Grass	Percy Bateman Brown	7–5, 6–4, 7–5
Winner	6.	1888	Dublin University Championships	Dublin	Asphalt	Harold Segerson Mahony	6–4, 6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	7.	1889	Fitzwilliam Club Championships *	Dublin	Grass	Hume Riversdale Jones	6–4, 2–6, 4–6, 3–6

Education and career

Campion was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he was a medical student. On graduating, Campion became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (L.R.C.P.I.), and Licentiate in Medicine (L.M.) in 1887. He was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine; and a Member of the British Medical Association. He later worked as surgeon for the Orient Line, Pacific Steam Navigation Company, and Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers Company.

Family

Campion was the son of Serjeant Campion (1813-1907) of County Cork and later a Queen's Counsel (Q.C.), Serjeant-at-Law and Professor of English Law at Queen's College, Galway; and Martha Campion (née Wilson; 1828–72), from County Cork. Tom married Jane Irene Lambert Tymons (1862-1909), from Dublin, on 2 December 1889 in Saint Matthias's Church.